Dentons is proud to announce that Law360 has named our US Capital Markets practice the 2024 Practice Group of the Year in the Complex Financial Instruments (formerly “Structured Finance”) category for the fourth year in a row. This prestigious award highlights the top legal practices that helped guide clients in record-breaking, complex and innovative matters in 2024.

Our US Capital Markets team continues to distinguish itself through the support of our A-list roster of clients, who have entrusted our lawyers with their most sophisticated, complex and first-of-a-kind structured finance transactions for more than 30 years. As recognized by Law360, those achievements over the past year have included:

• A major global bank’s US$6 billion acquisition and structured financing of a residential mortgage warehouse business from one of the largest regional banks in the country.
• The US$43 billion issuance of Class A senior notes by four special purpose trusts formed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as receiver for Silicon Valley Bank, and the sale of those notes to the US Treasury’s Federal Financing Bank.
• The securitization and financing of Ginnie Mae mortgage servicing rights and servicing advances master trust transactions, some of the most complex, muti-layered transactions in the MSR industry.
• One of the first rated securitizations of home equity investment (HEI) agreements. Dentons continues to represent various clients in acquisitions, financings and securitizations involving shared appreciation products.
• A major global financial institution as liquidity note provider for a US$940 million rated securitization collateralized by interests in six data center properties.

With 75 structured finance lawyers, Dentons has stood at the forefront of structured finance for more than three decades. In 2024, we advised on more than 180 asset-backed transactions in the US, totaling more than US$50 billion. Dentons leads in the finance and securitization of assets in all aspects of real estate finance including triple-net lease commercial real estate, single family rental properties, mortgage servicing rights and residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities. We are the “go-to” firm for triple-net lease securitizations, and the firm’s prowess extends to emerging areas of real estate finance such as shared appreciation agreements and investor loans. In addition, Dentons is one of a very small, select group of law firms with a team dedicated solely to agency and trust services providers. Dentons is also one of a few law firms that can call on a “highly regarded” dedicated consumer finance regulatory team with a long-standing and proven track record in the US market.

Dentons is at the forefront of navigating clients through first-of-its-kind transactions and novel asset classes. We advise on securitizations and structured finance transactions involving student and consumer loans, aircraft receivables, fiber networks, data centers and whole business transactions. In many cases, our lawyers guided clients through unexplored legal territory.